Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt (9 January 1859-9 March 1947) was an American suffragist who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which gave women the right to vote in 1920.

Biography
Carrie Chapman Catt was born in Ripon, Wisconsin on 9 January 1859, and she was one of the founders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900, whose president she was from 1900 to 1904 and from 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters, serving as its first president in 1920. She was also associated with the American pacifist movement and an isolationist. In 1915, she founded the Woman's Peace Party together with Jane Addams, and she chaired the Commission on the Cause and Cure of War from 1925 to 1932. In contrast to Addams, however, she partly turned her attention away from international peace, putting her efforts into the International Alliance of Women, which she had co-founded in 1904 and which she continued to lead with energy until 1925. Opposition to fascism and the Nazi Party caused her to abandon her pacifism in the 1930s, and she died in New Rochelle, New York in 1947.